some wide-scale airline reservations issue

Tue Aug 19 20:01:10 UTC 2003

At 03:40 PM 19/08/2003 -0400, Joe Abley wrote:

>The consistent component of the ongoing rumour mill is that this is due to 
>"some computer virus".

sobig.f is REALLY making the rounds. I think its been effective as it plays 
on the public awareness of "some security hole" and "needed fixes from 
Microsoft."   As the worm says, "Hi, I am from Microsoft, you need this 
patch" a greater than normal amount of people are suspending their 
judgement and clicking on it.

Also, we are seeing the odd customer network being taken out by the nachi 
worm. I had one guy shut off his switch because he thought it was "broken" 
since all the lights were practically solid :-).... It was solid alright, 
with ping floods ;-)

         ---Mike 